Bill DeYoung.com

Hello and thanks for visiting the home page of Bill DeYoung and Skyway Productions. I'm an arts and entertainment writer based in Savannah, Ga. On this site you'll find a few of the more detailed musician profiles I've done, a selection of my liner notes for Rhino Records and other labels (more than 100 CDs and counting), and some other newspaper and magazine pieces from over the years.

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Bill Deyoung

TABLE OF CONTENTS


NEWEST ARRIVALS

Truckin': Slide guitar master Derek Trucks


THE BEATLES

Imagine there's no color: Yoko Ono on Lennon's art
Beatles: From Abbey Road to the Treasure Coast
Weighing in with Peter Asher
Beatles & Stones: Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg
George Martin: "They Were My Boys, The Greatest In The World"
Mary Hopkin "She's A Joan Baez Type, But We'll Soon Alter that"


CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG

Wild tales: A candid conversation with Graham Nash
Neil Young's 'Greendale' debuts in Florida
Stephen Stills: As I Come of Age
Talk Talk: Graham Nash
Tell Me Why: A conversation with Neil Young


ROCK 'N' ROLL

Remembering rock legend Bo Diddley
Somebody to paint: Grace Slick on art, music, age and outrage
Earth, Wind & Fire: The Way of the World
'The Wire is Life': A conversation with Phil Lesh
Adventuresome stretching: A conversation with Warren Haynes
Out of the darkness: Brian Wilson returns with a long-lost masterwork
Songs from the Wood: Catching up with pianist Chuck Leavell Talk Talk: Neil Finn
We Just Disagree - The Story Of Dave Mason
Evanescence: 'We've never been a Christian band'
Chicago: The Fellowship of the Logo
The Bangles: On their own terms
The Bangles: California Dreamin'
Ray Parker Jr.: Who you gonna call?
Bo Diddley: Conversations with The Originator
Crowded House: Something So Strong
Living With the Past: On the Road with Jethro Tull
KISS and tell: Gene Simmons' life is an open book
Seals and Crofts: We May Never Pass This Way Again
The 5th Dimension: Workin' On a Groovy Thing
Tom Petty: Full Steam Ahead
We Just Disagree: The Story Of Dave Mason


COUNTRY MUSIC

My name is EARLE — How Townes Van Zandt helped Steve Earle find himself
On the road again: Willie Nelson and "Sister Bobbie"
Lisa Marie Presley makes a name for herself
Everybody loves Reba
Don Henley on Kenny Rogers
Emmylou Harris: The Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Essential Willie: The Top Twenty
Home At Last: The Journey of Linda Ronstadt
Just Breathe: 10 Questions for Faith Hill
Kenny Rogers: Life as a Gambler
Linda Ronstadt on Emmylou: And then there were two…
Love Hurts: A Conversation With Rosanne Cash
Merle Haggard: Pride in What I Am
Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid
Things I Wish I'd Said: Rodney Crowell On Songwriting
Simple Dreams: The Story of Trisha Yearwood
Ten Questions: Dwight Yoakam
Ten Questions: Waylon Jennings
The Everly Sisters: Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
Willie Nelson: Funny How Time Slips Away


MOVIES & TV

Becoming 'Precious': A conversation with filmmaker Lee Daniels
Onstage or bust: Comedian Ron White The last word on 'The Last Song'
Still fighting: John Walsh of 'America's Most Wanted'
Out of Office: "The West Wing" says goodbye
Jake Owen's country music career is heating up
Home on the Range: Ex–Monkee Davy Jones in Florida
Billy Bob Thornton 2005
No place like home — Burt Reynolds on life in Jupiter, the job in Hollywood and the new 'Dukes of Hazzard' movie
Billy Bob Thornton
Impeccable: A conversation with Gregory Peck
William H. Macy


VARIOUS LINER NOTES

Liner Notes: MANASSAS PIECES
Friendly Strangers/The Ides of March
Liner Notes by Bill DeYoung (As of 9/08)
ROSEBUD — "Discoballs — A Tribute to Pink Floyd"
Liner notes: Chicago's "Stone of Sisyphus."
TRAFFIC: WHEN THE EAGLE FLIES
THE LEFT BANKE MILLENNIUM
THE SEALS AND CROFTS ANTHOLOGY
TRAFFIC: ON THE ROAD
TRAFFIC: SHOOT OUT AT THE FANTASY FACTORY
CAT STEVENS TIMELINE
CAT STEVENS BOX SET Song-By-Song
Notes for ONLY THE BEGINNING: The VERY BEST OF CHICAGO (international version)
Opening essay for CAT STEVENS BOX SET
Gary Wright: Essentials
Wet Willie: The Millennium Collection
Eddie Rabbitt: Essentials
David Gray: A Bird Without Wings
Kix: Essentials

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